William Whitaker's Words User Reviews

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Not working

One year on from the last reviewer's post, still not functioning. No search bar, no interface, nothing but a title page.

iPad Version doesn’t work

Unfortunately this App no longer works on an iPad.

It doesn’t work in ipad

There is no search bar!

Why Am I not Seeing the Actual Page

I can never get passed the welcome home page.

it doesn’t work in ipad

It worked well before but today search bar didn’t appear at the top so I reinstalled. And it says. welcome and I can’t do anything. Please fix the bug

Failure

Stopped working and there is no way to contact the developer.

Update: I heard from the developer that the app has been fixed. So I tried it. Got EO for “to hear”. After about a dozen other nonsensical responses to other vocabulary searches, the fix is definitely in. This is worse than not working at all.
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Response from developer

Sorry about the delay in fixing the issue, Trespanieli. I just rolled out the fix to Latin to English translations. English to Latin is still in the works.

Failure

Stopped working and there is no way to contact the developer.

Response from developer

Sorry about the delay in fixing the issue, Trespanieli. I just rolled out the fix to Latin to English translations. English to Latin is still in the works.

Error message

Hello. Love the app. Recently it has not been working. The error message is: “Could not connect to William Whitaker’s Words”. I am a ad-free user. Not that it matters.

English to Latin error

I used to be able to search English to Latin, but for several weeks it says “cannot connect to Whitaker’s Words”. i have uninstalled and reinstalled with the same results

Not working

Seems to have ceased functioning

Broken?

This would be really useful since I was using the online version, but when I look up a word it just displays an html doc that shows an error instead of my word. I would love to use this if that gets fixed

App one of my favorites but

It is not working anymore. It always says “could not connect to Whittaker’s words” now. Please advise. The other apps are not nearly as good! Please come back!

I teach a lot of Latin teachers around the US and I always recommend this app!

This app seems not working?

It says “Could not connect to William Whitaker's Words”

straight up not working

worked great for about six months, but after the update it went from “not found” to “could not connect to william whittaker’s words”

William Whitaker’s Words

When we attempt to look up a word, a statement pops ups saying “could not connect to William Whitaker’s Words”.
This happens with all word entries on both iPad and iPhone.
After reading other reviews, we were hopeful this would be a helpful app :(

Not working after Apple update

This used to be a great app, but it has stopped working, I think since a recent Apple update.

No match found

It was working great but something changed; now I get even for simple words “no match found.” This is so for iPad and iPhone.

Problem?

Guess I use the review form to try to communicate with the developer. App Support takes me to a useless online page.

These searches appear to have information that I am unable to decode, e.g., I asked for Latin ways to say "die", and I got, among others

"cado, cadere, cecidi, casus V INTRANS 3 1 INTRANS [XXXAO]

fall, sink, drop, plummet, topple; be slain, die; end, cease, abate; decay;"

"cado, … casus" I understand — like other Latin dictionaries, it reports: 1st person singular present tense, present infinitive, 1st person singular perfect tense, perfect participle. I also get V INTRANS — "cado" is an intransitive verb.

But then I'm lost. What is "3 1 INTRANS"? Three or third what? One what? Some other kind of intransitive? You think I didn't believe it the first time? And "[XXXAO]"? Three kisses and a hug?

The same search (for "die") also returned

"pereo, perire, perivi(ii), peritus V 6 1 [XXXAX] ". So this is also a verb, but not intransitive? Transitive or deponent? And it has 6 of whatever "cado" has 3 of, so it's not the conjugation pattern. And the XXX pattern is different.

If this code represents useful information, I would like access to it. If not, I recommend that you omit it.

I really want to like this app, but …
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willy m'boy

best latin app hands down. sure there's the occasional bug but always fixed with closing and reopening the app. most helpful. william whitaker has gotten me through 4+ years of latin, mad respect. literally the only thing that could make this beautiful, minimalist app better is an offline version. caecilius est in horto
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Not working in iPad suddenly. It was great until then. Help!

I need help